Bulge formations.

[Scottie]

I was working in a garden in the last couple of weeks where I came across a Beech with buckiling creases at the base. I have read through the book Manual of Wood Decays in Trees by K. Weber and C. Mattheck. I understand that it is ony white rot that causes the bucklilng creases and the tree lays down wide annual rings.

 

Can someone expand on this and explain it a bit more like what white rot is it? Would a tree need to come down because of the stresses on the cambuim or simply should you just watch it and look for secondary effects?

 

Someone who I was working with at the time mentioned that he had to fell a lot of beechs with these buldges and they were hollow inside.

 

Thanks.

[Fungus]

I was working in a garden in the last couple of weeks where I came across a Beech with buckiling creases at the base. I have read through the book Manual of Wood Decays in Trees by K. Weber and C. Mattheck. I understand that it is ony white rot that causes the bucklilng creases and the tree lays down wide annual rings.

Can someone expand on this and explain it a bit more like what white rot is it? Would a tree need to come down because of the stresses on the cambuim or simply should you just watch it and look for secondary effects?

Someone who I was working with at the time mentioned that he had to fell a lot of beechs with these buldges and they were hollow inside.

 

Scott,

Without pictures hard to say what type of bulge formations or buckling creases you mean and what fungi with what type of woodrot causes them. Besides, some of these phenomenons and the pathogens causing them are not included in Weber & Mattheck's book.

Edited November 6, 2011 by Fungus